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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 2h

Rick Scott was CEO of a company forced to settle what the DOJ called “the largest healthcare fraud case in history.”
Is that the expertise that’s driving your “plan.”
www.justice.gov/archive/opa/...

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 14h

It looks even worse by video 😢

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 2h

What's next after a hugely successful "No Kings" day?

More joyful, patriotic, and peaceful organizing to defend our democracy.

Join @indivisible.org and more this evening to be a part of it.
www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

Mass Call: What's Next After No Kings? · No Kings

No Kings will be massive, powerful, and meaningful - but it won’t be the end of our work. Join movement leaders and fellow local activists after the big day to come together, celebrate what we accompl...

www.mobilize.us

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 15h

I might have to get this in poster form.

Democracy lover @spottie999.bsky.social · 18h

Frogs united will never be defeated!!

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 3h

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

I am completely awestruck by the ease with which Mike Johnson lies on a daily basis. I'll never understand how such a transparently fraudulent "man of faith" can live with themselves. Life is too short to be that phony.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 14h

I'm not a West Wing obsessed lib or anything but the more I see pictures of this the more fucked up I think it is. It's like he cut off one of the hands of the Lincoln memorial with an angle grinder so he could add a big gun to it.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 15h

The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing

Exclusive | Treasury Tells Employees Not to Share Photos of White House Ballroom Construction

Images of the demolition of parts of the East Wing went viral on Monday, and Treasury’s headquarters next door to the White House has a front-row seat.

www.wsj.com

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Mary Giddings 🐸📎🌻🏳️‍🌈 @giddingsmj.bsky.social · 1h

idahocapitalsun.com/2025/10/21/a...

As far as the eye could see, Idahoans showed up to denounce authoritarianism at No Kings protest • Idaho Capital Sun

On Saturday I attended the “No Kings” protest at the Statehouse to do my small part in declaring that we do not want the country to drift into authoritarianism. As far as the eye could see, there was ...

idahocapitalsun.com

Mary Giddings 🐸📎🌻🏳️‍🌈 @giddingsmj.bsky.social · 1h

Look at that. They can actually respond to their constituents' concerns. #Idaho
idahocapitalsun.com/2025/10/20/i...

Idaho’s governor and members of Congress request federal briefing on Qatari training announcement • Idaho Capital Sun

Idaho officials say they have questions about security protocols, costs and long-term plans for training Qatari personnel in Mountain Home.

idahocapitalsun.com

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 12h

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Exclusive | Treasury Tells Employees Not to Share Photos of White House Ballroom Construction

Images of the demolition of parts of the East Wing went viral on Monday, and Treasury’s headquarters next door to the White House has a front-row seat.

www.wsj.com

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Mary Giddings 🐸📎🌻🏳️‍🌈 @giddingsmj.bsky.social · 22h

OMG. He's destroying the people's house.

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Mary Giddings 🐸📎🌻🏳️‍🌈 @giddingsmj.bsky.social · 22h

open.substack.com/pub/indivisi...

No Kings II a Huge Success!

Great work Saturday, Moscow Indivisible!

open.substack.com

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Mary Giddings 🐸📎🌻🏳️‍🌈 @giddingsmj.bsky.social · 1d

newrepublic.com/article/2019...

Republicans Should Be Afraid—Just Look at Who Joined No Kings Protests

For days, Republicans have been claiming No Kings protesters are all agitators and terrorists. Well, America had a different message for them, and for their Dear Leader.

newrepublic.com

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Mary Giddings 🐸📎🌻🏳️‍🌈 @giddingsmj.bsky.social · 1d

www.wired.com/story/ftc-re...

The FTC Is Disappearing Blog Posts About AI Published During Lina Khan’s Tenure

The Federal Trade Commission removed several blog posts in recent months about open source and potential risks to consumers from the rapid spread of commercial AI tools.

www.wired.com

Mary Giddings 🐸📎🌻🏳️‍🌈 @giddingsmj.bsky.social · 1d

idahocapitalsun.com/2025/10/20/r...

Trump isn’t sending troops to cities with highest crime rates, data shows • Idaho Capital Sun

U.S. Census Bureau and federal crime data shows that Trump’s National Guard deployments have not focused on the nation’s most violent cities.

idahocapitalsun.com

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Mary Giddings 🐸📎🌻🏳️‍🌈 @giddingsmj.bsky.social · 1d

RFS [Run for Something] will work to lift the bench in Arizona, North Carolina, Georgia and Ohio...... And we’ll build battlegrounds in Texas, Florida, Idaho, Louisiana, and Mississippi. By doing so, we lay the groundwork for many new paths to victory in 2032.

#Idaho folks!

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 1d

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 1d

“All my friends murdered and raped, sometimes they hung out at my house. Get over yourself.”

RFK Jr. explains why socializing with Jeffrey Epstein wasn't such a big deal for him:
...l ran into everybody in NY. I mean, I knew Harvey Weinstein, I knew Roger Ailes, I knew
-- O.J. Simpson came to my house. Bill Cosby came to my house."

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

RE: Dutch spooks deciding they're less willing to share w/the US: Remember that the docs from SVR that were the focus of the (now declassified) Durham annex and HPSCI reports were from the Dutch. Basically Tulsi burned all that to smithereens for partisan gain.

nltimes.nl/2025/10/18/d...

Dutch intelligence services cut back on sharing information with U.S
The Dutch intelligence services AIVD and MIVD have reduced the amount of information they share with their American counterparts, citing political developments in the United States under President Donald Trump and growing concerns over the politicization of intelligence and "respect for human rights."

In a joint interview with de Volkskrant, AIVD Director-General Erik Akerboom and MIVD Director Peter Reesink confirmed that the agencies have become more selective in their cooperation with the CIA and NSA. “That we sometimes no longer tell certain things, that’s true,” Reesink said. Akerboom added, “Sometimes you have to think case by case: can I still share this information or not?” While both officials stressed that relations with U.S. intelligence agencies remain “excellent,” they emphasized that the Netherlands has become “more critical.”

According to the two directors, the Netherlands is increasingly focusing on European cooperation. “We have scaled up enormously,” Akerboom told De Volkskrant, referring to a leading group of Northern European services — including those from the United Kingdom, Germany, Scandinavia, France, and Poland — that are exchanging intelligence more intensively. The war in Ukraine and the growing Russian threat to Europe have accelerated these multilateral intelligence partnerships. Reesink noted that a similar development is visible within military intelligence circles.

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Mary Giddings 🐸📎🌻🏳️‍🌈 @giddingsmj.bsky.social · 1d

There is nearly always snow on Halloween up here in Latah county. Of course "always" is up for grabs these days.

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60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 1d

“We found over 35 cases in which the judges have specifically said what the government is providing…false information. It might be intentionally false information, including false sworn declarations time and again," says Ryan Goodman, law professor at New York University.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.

They’ve had their necks kneeled on.

They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.

At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.

By @nicolefoy.bsky.social

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/o...

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

OK, so our "Secretary of War" currently has two big priorities: (1) murdering innocent fishermen in the Caribbean, and (2) endangering the lives of commuters in Southern California.

Perhaps, we are seeing one of the downsides to having a drunk TV talk show chatterbox running our military.

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